Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 3:13

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

13. shafts ] lit. as mg. the more poetical sons.

reins ] See on Jer 12:2.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 13. The arrows of his quiver] beney ashpatho, “The sons of his quiver.” The issue or effect; the subject, adjunct, or accident, or produce of a thing, is frequently denominated its son or child. So arrows that issue from a quiver are here termed the sons of the quiver.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

That is, he hath made his judgments to pierce the most inward parts of the nation; or, he hath mortally wounded me. In the Hebrew it is,

the daughters of his quiver, a way of speaking very usual in Hebrew, to express any thing that comes from another as the effect either of a natural or moral cause; so sparks are called the sons of the quick coal, Job 5:7, and corn the son of the floor, &c.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

13-15. arrowsliterally,”sons” of His quiver (compare Job6:4).

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver,…. Or, “the sons of his quiver” i; an usual Hebraism; the quiver is compared, as Aben Ezra observes, to a pregnant woman; and Horace has a like expression, “venenatis gravidam sagittis pharetram” k; the judgments of God are often signified by this metaphor, even his four sore ones, sword, famine, pestilence, and noisome beast, De 32:23; these, says the prophet, he caused

to enter into my reins; that is, into the midst of his land and people, or into the city of Jerusalem; or these affected his mind and heart as if so many arrows had stuck in him, the poison of which drank up his spirits, Job 6:4.

i “filios pharetrae suae”, Montanus, Munster, Cocceius, Michaelis. k L. 1. Ode 22.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

He goes on with the same metaphor; he said in the last verse that God had leveled his bow; he now adds, that his arrows had penetrated into his reins, that is, into his inward parts. But we must bear in mind what the Prophet meant, that God had dealt so severely with the people, that no part, even the innermost, was sound or untouched, for his arrows had perforated their very reins. He afterwards adds, —

Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary

(13) The arrows of his quiver.Literally, children. The other side of the analogy appears in Psa. 127:5.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

13. Arrows of his quiver Better, as the margin, sons “of his quiver.” These are, of course, the ills and misfortunes sent upon him by God.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lam 3:13. The arrows of his quiver The sons of his quiver. Houbigant. It is usual in the Hebrew to call the subject, adjunct, accident, effect, &c. the son of that particular thing. Hence it is that the Hebrew prophets represent nations, countries, and people, under the image of a woman; and it must be ascribed to the same principle, that arrows are here called the sons of the quiver. See Bishop Lowth’s Prelections.

Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke

Lam 3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Ver. 13. He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. ] a Heb., The sons of his quiver, by a Hebraism. So Horace hath –

“ Pharetram gravidam sagittis. ” – Lib, ii. od. 21.

“Full quiver of arrows.”

Job hath many like complaints. Job 7:20 ; Job 8:4 ; Job 16:12-13

a Renes sunt sedes libidinis.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)